FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Since its invention nearly 3,000 years ago, the Greek alphabet has variously been deployed to denote different things: academic excellence, as in the Phi Beta Kappa Society; personality types, such as alpha males; even scientific phenomena, such as gamma rays. Only in May 2021 did it come to represent the multiple personalities of an organism that poses a severe threat to human existence. In an effort to dissociate any country with versions of the deadly virus, the World Health Organization chose to assign them letters of the Greek alphabet. Thus the world was introduced to the Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta and now the Omicron variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Experts acknowledge Omicron as the fastest-spreading variant yet, which is responsible for the global resurgence of the pandemic, accounting for 1.7…
